National Republican., 1887-10-17

there have been more cases than you can count
when God has 20 helped the man that he quit
forever, and CUuld count score Of them here
to-day, some ofthem pillars In the house ofGod.
Oue would suppose that men would take
warning from some oi the oninous names given
TO the intoxicants, and stand off from the de-
instance, that some OF the restaurants are called
''The Shades" typical of the fact that II puts a
mans reputation IN Che shade and HI his morals
and his wife and children in the shade, and
his immortal destiny In the shade.
Now, find on some q the liquor signs in all
gestioc Of a carcass. and the filthy raven that
swoops upon 1t. cold Crowp' Men and women
without numbers slain OF rum but unburied,
and pecking at their bloated cheek, and peck.
ing at their destroyed manhood and woman
hood, tbfusting peak and claw into the mortal
now morally dead. "old Crowl" But alas, hos
many take no warning. They make me think of
Caesar on his why TO assassination fearing
h,,hng m,a snG%gn ns hs stesae es, IN inc nal SsnGd
Ing the names OF the conspiTators Yves thrust
into his hands, yet walking right on TO meet
the dagger that was TO take his life. This IN
fatuati0n of strong drink Is 80 mighty In many
man that though his fortunes are crash
ing, and his health is crashing, and
his domestio Interests are crashing, aud
spa % pas SR1s aWst STS Rl% he soss ss
straight on 10 physical, and mental, and moral
assBsnntion. In proportion as any style of
alcoholism ~ is pleasant TO your taste and stimu;
to all your physical and mental constitution Is
the peril awfnl7 Remember Jonathan and
the forbidden honey in the woods of Bethayen.
must be put In the list Oftemptations delicious
but destructive. / have crossed the ocean
eight times, and always one of the best rooms
has, from morning till late at night, been given
upto gambling practices. ] heard of many
men who went on board with enough money
for European excursion who landed without
enough money TO get their baggage up to the
hotel or railroad station. To many there Is a
complete fascination in games of hazard or the
rkkinRof money on possibilities IL seems as
natural for them to bet as TO eat Iudeed the
hunger for wagers, as In the case of Lord Sand.
wicb, q persistent gambler, who not being
willing TO leave the dice table long enough for
iood that he could take without stopping the
game; namely, a slice OF beef between two
slices Of bread, which was named after
H5a 6Sse 81 sandTch vs. who have "Gseya ssTar s Ss
the fascination of the wager to speak slight.
tude OF intellectual and moral giants, men
der It's power went glorions oliver Goldsmith,
and Gibbon, the historian, and Charles Fox,
the statesman, and in olden times famous sem
atoIs Of the ,pnited States. who used TO be as
they were in the halls Of legislation BY day.
Oh. the tragedies Of the faro table know
persons who began with slight stake In a
pistol at Monte Carlo. They played with the
square pieces of bone wifi black marks
on them, not knowing that satan was
and was sure to sweep all the stakes off on his
side of the table. The last New York legisla-
ture sanctioned the mighty evil last spring by
passing law for its defense at the race tracks.
and many young men in these cities lost all
their wages at Coney Island this summer and
this fall are borrowing from the money tills of
their employers or arranging by means Of false
Every man who voted for the Ives pool bill has
on his hands and forehead the blood of these
souls,
But in this connection some young converts
say to me, "Is 1t right to play cards7 Is there
any harm in game Of whist or euchreT,
Well, know good men who play whist aud
enehre ard other style Of game without any
with his wife and children, and then at the
close said. Come, now let us have prayers"
VIII not Judge other mems oonsclences, but
ciated with the temporal and eternal dam.
should no sooner say to my. family,
wend e1 Us 20 hsxs no sams S ana sn
"Come, let us have game of rattlesnakes," or
into into cemetery, and sitting down BY marble
slab say to the ersEe digsess Come Let US
ladies are silently saying to me while speak:
DO yor think card playing will do us any
harm 2" Perhaps not, but how will you feel If
to give on account OF our influence, some man
shall say 10 you. "I was introduced to games of
chance in the year 1887, in Brooklyn, at your
housc, and went on from that sport to some
thing more exciting, and went on down until
l lost my business, and lost my morals. aud lost
my SOUL and these chains that you sec on my
wrists and feet are the chains Of a ganester's
doom, and am on my way to a gamblers
hell " Honey at the start, eternal catastrophe
at the last.
Stock gambling comes into the same ca.a-
ilogue. II must be very exhilaratlng to go into
Wal! street, New York, or State street. Boston,
or Third street, Philadelphia and depositiny
small sum of money run the risk OF taking
out fortune. Many men are doing an honest
are an ignoramus If you do not know that 1t is
just as legitimate TO deal in stocks as to deal In
coffee or sugar or flour But nearly all the
Snsiders ova who go there @ & on itle financial ex
unsuspecting flies. had friend who put his
hand ON his hip pocket, and said to me In
substance: ~ havethere the value Of $3.50, 000."
matter? Wall street. Ottne vast majority who
are victimized you hear not one word. One
great stock firm goes down, and whole columns
of newspapers discuss their fraud, or their dis
aster, and we are presented with their features
and their biography. But where one such ia
m mous firm sinkss, i've hundred unknown men
sink with them. The great steamer goes down.
same enguliment. Gambling is gambling,
whether In stocks or breadstuifs. or dioe or race
track betting. Exhilaration al, the start, and
TEN, and a sacrificed property, and a destroyed
soul at the last Young man. buy no lottery
tickets, purchase no prize packages, bet on no
base ball games or yacht racing, have no faith
in luck, answer no mysterious circulars pro-
pressing great income for small investment,
Shoe away the buZzards that hover around our
hotels trying to entrap STRANGERS. Go out and
on %ats Your an Side 0assf ana pa s candidate aryS GOD @
heaven. Remember ali the paths Of Sin
are banked with flowers at the start and there
are are plenty Of helpful hands to fetch the gay
while you mount. But further on the horse
pluDges to the bit In slough inextricable.
The best honey is not like that which Jonathan
lips. but that which God puts on the banquet
ing table. OF mercy, at which we are all invited
TO sit: was S reading 9f boy among the
our place with his father and the snides' I The
boy stopped on the edge of the cliff aud said (:
There Is flower ! mean TO get" Come
away a,y ~ from there" said the father, "yon VIII
beautiful fiower,' and the guides rushed
toward him to pull him back, when they
heard him say. " almost have it," as
ne srd fell two thousand feet. Birds Of Prey
through the-air and lowering gradually to The
place where the corpse lay. Why seek flow.
erb OIL tDe euge OF pIecipice when you may
walk knee deep amid the full blooms Of the
very, paradise OF God2 When a man may sit
at kings banquet why will he go down the
steps and contend for the gristle aud bones OF
a'hound's kennel? "Sweeter than honey and
the honeycomb," says David, "is the truth of
Gsd." with honey ont of the rock would
have satisfied thee, says God to the recreant.
Here is honey gathered from the blossoms Of
trees of life, and with rod made out of the
wood Of the cross i dip 1t up for all YOUR souls.
The poet Hesod tells of an ambrosia aud a
men live forever, and one sip of this honey
from the eternal rock will give you immor.
tai life with God. Come off of the malafial
levels OF sinful life. Come and live on the
uplaDds OF grace, where the vineyards sun
themselves. oh, taste and see that the Lord is
gracious. BE happy now and happy forever.
For those who lake n dinerent cnuren the